For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars. Unlike indirect detection methods, such as transit observations or radial ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct ... only 6,000 worlds outside our solar system have been discovered, and they're usually spotted by searching for ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and ... As the most distant planet in the solar system, it only receives a dim twilight's worth of sunshine at its high noon.

Article continues below Due to a peak of activity from the Sun during its 11-year solar cycle ... such as the UK. The James Webb Space Telescope captured the shimmering lights on Neptune, the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image ... NASA says the next step will be to study Neptune across a full solar cycle, which lasts roughly 11 years. Only Webb will be ...